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I speak about the parts of technology leadership that are hard to talk about honestly — governing AI in environments where mistakes harm people, lifting security without an enterprise budget, and what actually happens when you restructure a team.
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Deploying AI when your users are vulnerable
Care, health, education, government-adjacent
What changes about AI adoption when the people in your data cannot consent in any meaningful way, and two different regulators are watching. Practical governance, not theory.
Essential Eight on a not-for-profit budget
CIOs, IT managers, boards
Lifting cyber maturity when there is no dedicated security team and no enterprise budget. What to do first, what to defer, and how to evidence it to a board.
Running IT across two regulators
Executives operating internationally
Data residency, cross-border access and jurisdictional complexity when the same organisation operates under Australian and UK regimes at once.
From firefighting to strategic: rebuilding an IT function
IT leaders, executive teams
Taking a reactive, under-resourced team and restructuring it into distinct delivery streams — including the part where you discover you are the bottleneck.
The CIO as an AI translator
Boards and executive teams
How to ask better questions about AI proposals, separate genuine capability from vendor narrative, and make decisions you can defend in twelve months.
Formats
- —Conference keynote (20–45 min)
- —Panel discussion and moderation
- —Executive or board briefing (45–90 min)
- —Workshop (half or full day)
- —Podcast and interview
For organisers
Headshots are available on request in high resolution, square and transparent-background formats.
Request the media kit →Biography
Short — one line
Iyan Barry is a Brisbane-based Chief Information Officer working at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and child-safeguarding technology.
Medium — 60 words
Iyan Barry is Chief Information Officer at Safe Places for Children, where he leads technology, data, cybersecurity and digital strategy across Australian and UK operations. With three decades in technology, he focuses on making AI and security work in environments where the stakes are people rather than uptime. He writes and speaks on practical AI governance for regulated organisations.
Long — 120 words
Iyan Barry is Chief Information Officer at Safe Places for Children, a not-for-profit providing intensive therapeutic care to young people at risk. He leads technology, information, data, cybersecurity and digital enablement across Australian operations and a UK arm regulated by Ofsted — an environment where data protection is a child-safety matter, not a compliance exercise.
His career in technology began at sixteen and spans three decades across Australian organisations. He has rebuilt an IT function from reactive to strategic, implemented the ACSC Essential Eight and ISO 27001-aligned controls, and deployed AI and automation into day-to-day operations. He advises Australian mid-market executive teams and writes on IT leadership at iyanbarry.com.
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